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An institution where valuable plant material likely to become irretrievably lost in the wild or cultivation is preserved in a viable condition is known as
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An institution where valuable plant material likely to become irretrievably lost in the wild or cultivation is preserved in a viable condition is known as gene Bank.
Gene banks are a type of biorepository that preserves genetic materials. In plants, this could be by freezing cuts from the plant or stocking the seeds. In animals, this is by the freezing of sperm and eggs in zoological freezers until further need. With corals, fragments are taken, which are stored in water tanks under controlled conditions. Plant genetic material in a 'gene bank' is preserved at -196 °C in liquid nitrogen as mature seed (dry). In plants, it is possible to unfreeze the material and propagate it.
